As we like to remind you every time we look at one of Colossive Press’s Colossive Cartographies series of fold-out zines some are most definitely comics while others fit into…
Well, this is very welcome news. J.M. DeMatteis and Glenn Barr’s Brooklyn Dreams is one of my all-time favourite comics works. It’s nothing short of a masterpiece of its genre….
In 2022 Broken Frontier reviewer Tom Baker described the first issue of the charity Re-Live’s Coming Home anthology series as “a creatively daring, admirably moral, and consciousness-raising book”, adding “here’s…
Covering work that is not just experimental but also actively interrogates the potential of the form is a central part of our mission here at Broken Frontier. In Blinded writer…
Now settled firmly into an annual publication schedule, Ugly Mug #8 lives up to its tagline of “an industrial strength comics compendium” with another bumper collection of comic strips and…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! It’s the great UK comics end-of-year party and this year, for the first time since 2019, Cinderella did finally get to go to the ball. The…
As someone who, back in the mists of time, was a judge for the second edition of what is now the First Graphic Novel Award I can certainly attest to…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! So that was Thought Bubble Month at BF… When our festival report goes up next week we will have exceeded our ambitious plan to get 50…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! A perennial favourite in the Broken Frontier Awards in the Best Periodical Series category, Strip for Me’s A Pocket Chiller series has produced some truly disquieting one-shot…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! If anyone ever tells you that the UK small press comics scene is in a state of decline…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Living with the Living originally saw life a few years ago as a webcomic but went on hiatus…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Fraser Geesin and Laurie Rowan’s Pricks, in all its multi-named and numbered incarnations, has become one of my favourite Thought Bubble print fixtures, albeit a delightfully…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Annabel Hewitson’s Nostos minicomics follow the adventures of Alexandros and m3.tis, the AI aboard his spaceship, as the pair travel through the stars. To date there…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Every year at Broken Frontier as part of our Thought Bubble coverage we like to pick out one…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! There are times when you read comics work that is so captivating and so delightful that you immediately fall in love with it. This was my…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! With a remit to explore “queer love stories in medieval/historical fantasy settings” Queer Knights features three stories; one from KitsuneArt who has featured on a number…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! In Hometown Harl Jones explores feelings that will, no doubt, be familiar to many. This minicomic short examines that odd sense of displacement that can occur…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Kai Dylan’s work first came to my attention via our most recent Broken Frontier Connects day of one-to-one Zoom mentoring sessions. The title Fifteen Minutes is…
“Comics, Similar to Zines, Exist as a Proletariat Art Form Within Popular Consciousness” – Raquelle Jac on Her Powerful Debut Graphic Memoir ‘Bimbo Agitprop’ from FantagraphicsAugust 13, 2026
“I Felt an Instant Connection with Bernie” – Joe D’Esposito on His Krigstein Graphic Biography ‘The Outsider’ and His Affinity with the Legendary EC Comics ArtistAugust 7, 2026
“The Creative Process is Always to Mine for Something Vibrant Inside of Me” – Jesse Moynihan on His Epic Saga ‘Forming’ and Working on One Continuous Narrative for a Decade and a HalfAugust 4, 2026
“Without ‘A1’ and ‘Deadline’, We Might Be in an Entirely Different Place in Comics” – Alison Sampson, Dave Elliott, Fred Van Lente and Cathy Kwan on the Return of Two Legendary Publications in ‘A1 Deadline’July 21, 2026
“I Want to Enjoy the Process without the Pressure of Pleasing Other People” – Henry McCausland on ‘Eight-Lane Runaways’, ‘River Rangers’ and Comics as a Physical ExperienceJuly 7, 2026
